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    catat is offline Novice
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    Ensuring Everything Works...?

    Hello,

    I am nearly finished creating my first database and I not feeling 100% about it. It is not a database I will be using, so I am afraid some forms, reports, etc. may stop working. I have a number of tables, queries, and forms. I did manage to get everything to link, but I think I may have too many tables and forms. Are there ways to find out whether everything is put together properly other than trial and error? Silly question I know, but I don't want to hand it off when I feel it may not be completely ready.



    Thank you!

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    pbaldy is offline Who is John Galt?
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    In my view, there's no substitute for testing by end users. Inevitably I'll design something that works perfectly for me, but a user will find some way of doing things I didn't anticipate. I once read that the designer makes the worst tester, and it's probably true. You know how it was designed to work, so that's how you test. Users are much more diabolical, and they don't follow the rules.
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